Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 254 303
Rank change year-on-year -99 +49 -92
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 469 581 933
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.32% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.42% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 218 302 519
10th Percentile £38,984 £46,250 £39,221
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,224 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -86 424 £67,000 -4.35% 290
London -1 261 £82,500 +3.13% 190
Work from Home +84 257 £63,076 -2.96% 125
UK excluding London -166 145 £63,076 -2.40% 139
North of England -17 56 £75,000 -6.25% 16
North West +21 36 £85,000 +6.25% 9
South East -122 30 £47,500 -32.14% 43
Midlands -42 22 £60,000 -2.04% 24
East of England -8 21 £61,300 -10.84% 20
Yorkshire -36 17 £63,076 +94.08% 4
West Midlands -49 17 £58,750 -6.00% 16
South West -87 15 £62,500 +4.17% 16
East Midlands -28 5 £152,500 +190.48% 8
Scotland -7 3 £55,000 +2.33% 9
North East -40 3 £63,076 -23.54% 3
Northern Ireland -38 2 £75,000 - 5
Wales -33 1 £69,501 +16.11% 7

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (2.99%) Confluence
3 10 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.64%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 54 (11.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (8.32%) Workfront
2 5 (1.07%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.85%) Shopify
4 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.43%) Magento
5 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (16.84%) AWS
2 59 (12.58%) SaaS
3 53 (11.30%) iPaaS
4 48 (10.23%) Azure
5 18 (3.84%) GitHub
5 18 (3.84%) Pulumi
6 14 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
7 13 (2.77%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.56%) GCP
8 12 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.92%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.71%) Figma
11 6 (1.28%) Asana
12 5 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.07%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.85%) Azure AI
13 4 (0.85%) H2O.ai
13 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.85%) Miro
13 4 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 78 (16.63%) Broadband
2 29 (6.18%) HTTP
3 13 (2.77%) WAN
4 12 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 10 (2.13%) LAN
6 5 (1.07%) Firewall
6 5 (1.07%) Multicast
6 5 (1.07%) Network Security
7 4 (0.85%) MPLS
7 4 (0.85%) NGN
7 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.64%) Wireless
8 3 (0.64%) WLAN
9 2 (0.43%) VPN
10 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.21%) DNS
10 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.21%) SAN
10 1 (0.21%) Skype
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.15%) Metadata
2 18 (3.84%) NoSQL
2 18 (3.84%) RDBMS
2 18 (3.84%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.35%) Power BI
4 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.64%) Big Data
6 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (5.76%) JIRA
2 18 (3.84%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.85%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 163 (34.75%) Marketing
2 149 (31.77%) Finance
3 141 (30.06%) Social Skills
4 79 (16.84%) Banking
5 62 (13.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (12.37%) Retail
8 48 (10.23%) Law
9 47 (10.02%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (6.40%) Public Sector
12 27 (5.76%) Back Office
13 25 (5.33%) Legal
14 18 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (3.41%) Manufacturing
16 14 (2.99%) Financial Institution
16 14 (2.99%) Italian Language
16 14 (2.99%) Retail Banking
17 11 (2.35%) German Language
18 9 (1.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 140 (29.85%) Product Manager
2 78 (16.63%) Lead
2 78 (16.63%) Senior
3 72 (15.35%) Product Owner
4 43 (9.17%) Senior Manager
5 38 (8.10%) Senior Product Manager
6 30 (6.40%) Development Engineer
6 30 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 29 (6.18%) Software Development Engineer
8 22 (4.69%) Developer
9 21 (4.48%) Product Lead
10 19 (4.05%) Consultant
11 15 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (2.99%) Business Consultant
12 14 (2.99%) Business Development Consultant
12 14 (2.99%) Development Consultant
12 14 (2.99%) Senior Development Engineer
12 14 (2.99%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 14 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.61%) REST
2 18 (3.84%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (1.07%) CSS
3 5 (1.07%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (1.07%) HTML
4 4 (0.85%) Keras
4 4 (0.85%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.85%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.64%) .NET
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.43%) Pandas
6 2 (0.43%) Plotly
6 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.43%) Spring
6 2 (0.43%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.21%) Playwright
7 1 (0.21%) pytest
7 1 (0.21%) React
7 1 (0.21%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 155 (33.05%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.65%) Social Media
3 54 (11.51%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.51%) Over-the-Top Content
4 33 (7.04%) Cloud Native
5 30 (6.40%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.90%) Onboarding
7 20 (4.26%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
10 10 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.71%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.49%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.49%) Podcast
13 6 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.07%) Eurex
14 5 (1.07%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.76%) Linux
2 18 (3.84%) Unix
3 8 (1.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (65.46%) Roadmaps
2 227 (48.40%) Agile
3 140 (29.85%) Product Roadmap
4 123 (26.23%) Product Vision
5 107 (22.81%) Decision-Making
6 96 (20.47%) Mentoring
7 91 (19.40%) User Stories
8 90 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 89 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (18.76%) AI
11 84 (17.91%) Product Requirements
12 81 (17.27%) Customer Experience
12 81 (17.27%) Product Backlog
13 79 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
14 73 (15.57%) Sprint Planning
15 71 (15.14%) User Experience
16 63 (13.43%) Product Strategy
16 63 (13.43%) Workflow
17 61 (13.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 60 (12.79%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 52 (11.09%) Java
2 29 (6.18%) Python
3 25 (5.33%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.26%) Bash
5 18 (3.84%) Go
6 7 (1.49%) SQL
7 6 (1.28%) Bicep
8 3 (0.64%) C#
8 3 (0.64%) PHP
8 3 (0.64%) R
9 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (14.29%) Degree
2 20 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.05%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.71%) HNC
6 8 (1.71%) HND
7 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) CCNA
9 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.64%) CISSP
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) CBAP
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) IIBA
10 2 (0.43%) MBA
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.90%) QA
2 16 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.71%) GDPR
4 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.07%) SLA
6 3 (0.64%) PERC
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) GMP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.61%) Terraform
2 21 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.84%) Ansible
3 18 (3.84%) Argo
3 18 (3.84%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (13.22%) Adobe
2 46 (9.81%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.61%) Google
4 12 (2.56%) Oracle
5 9 (1.92%) Cisco
6 8 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.07%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.07%) CQG
8 5 (1.07%) Dell
8 5 (1.07%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.07%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.07%) Reuters
8 5 (1.07%) Trayport
9 4 (0.85%) Databricks
9 4 (0.85%) Juniper
9 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.85%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.64%) Aderant